Flight Data Assessment of Loops in Wind

Flight performed in strong wind containing multiple upwind and downwind loops. This notebook compares loop diameters to control inputs.

Sections representing five individual loops are extracted from the flight:

Each section of flight data contains a line, a loop and a line. In order to identify the loop element a manoeuvre and corresponding template is created to align with the flight data:

The temporal alignment is performed and new templates are created that are scaled to match the flown loops:

3D plots of the flown loops are compared to the scaled templates:

2D plots of the flown loops are compared to the scaled templates:

Look at the control inputs round the loop: